AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390

5.12 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +101%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Apr 2021

Pirate Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GA100

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.3

Shader Model

N/A

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